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February 2026
Monthly Meeting
NEXT HYBRID MEETING: Riley Black, When The Earth Was Green, February 21, Oasis, RB And Zoom
Riley Black is the bestselling and award-winning author of When the Earth Was Green , The Last Days of the Dinosaurs , and more. A regular contributor to National Geographic , Smithsonian , and Slate , as well as a repeat guest on NOVA and Science Friday , Riley has spent more than fifteen years bringing the public the latest about the deep past. When not enthusing over fossils in articles and books, Riley regularly volunteers with museum field teams to uncover new
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Articles
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Tomatoes and Marigolds
By jim Bishop. The last 2 years I lived in Austin were in a mobile home in the south part of town. I still have occasional nightmares...
Jan 1, 2013
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Town Lake
By Jim Bishop. Austin is situated on the Colorado River in Texas - not to be confused with the Colorado River that provides much of...
Dec 1, 2012
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Ostentatious Austin
By Jim Bishop. After graduating high school and without giving it much thought, I enrolled in the Mechanical Engineering program at the...
Oct 1, 2012
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: My First Landscape
By Jim Bishop. At the end of my freshman year of college, my parents moved from the Spring Shadows subdivision in Spring Branch, home of...
Aug 1, 2012
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Going Back to Houston
By Jim Bishop. After 3 years living in Missouri, my father accepted a new job in Houston and we moved to Texas in February of 1970. We...
Jun 1, 2012
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Kansas City Here I Come
By Jim Bishop. Kansas City, Missouri, is the only place I’ve lived that has 4 very distinct seasons. The winters were cold with snow,...
May 1, 2012
MY LIFE WITH PLANTS: Return to Kansas
By Jim Bishop. On a white-hot day in July of 1965, our family returned to Wichita. The thermometer at a roadside bank sign said it was...
Apr 1, 2012
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